She called them Jonquils, which I think are mostly the creamy colored variety of Narcissus. There are also hundreds of varieties to choose from and one of these days, when I make a proper space for them, I'll start investing in some of these bulbs.
In the meantime, what I started last year was a cutting garden. I love bouquets of fresh flowers but the varieties I like are not cheap at the florist. With plenty of space in the yard, I grabbed a semi-sunny corner and started daffodil and tulips specifically for cutting.
My bulbs are nothing special. I picked up the$17 variety pack of mixed daffodils for naturalizing and also a $20 pack of tulips at Sam's Club last fall. As anyone who is serious about their bulbs will tell you, you get what you pay for. Since the cutting garden was something of an afterthought, I figured the worst that would happen is that I'd be out $37 plus the time I took to plant them. They were destined for cut flowers anyway, so if they didn't come up at all, it wasn't like there was going to be a huge hole in the landscape.
Now that our Nor'easter is over and all the snow that fell last week is gone, I went poking about and discovered - daffodils! As I figured, not all of the bulbs have done anything. Surprisingly, there are more tulips coming up than daffodils but I'm not going to complain over 200 bulbs for $37.
It's all sort of exciting since I don't know what colors or shapes these are. Kronk is excited to have flowers in the back yard, and I don't think she fully understands yet that these are for cutting and bringing inside, not for leaving outside to look at.
I'll dig these guys up and put them in a sunnier spot in the veggie garden when the flowers are done and the plants begin to die back. They were sort of plunked in a convenient space without much thought to their needs and they came up anyway. For that, I think they deserve a better home.
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